Ole Frimer has been at the fore-front of Danish blues for many years, and has played and sung
his authentic blues with a. o. Peter Thorup, Blue Junction and his own Frimer Band.
Frimers finger-picking style covers from a soft tone to a crisp and often biting and powerful sound.
He is clearly inspired by the music from the southern part of USA, particularly Texas-blues,
Johnny Winter, Albert Collins and Freddie King style, spiced up with Tex-mex and Southern soul.

In 2001 he and Blue Junction, as the first Danes ever, won the american Real Blues Award
in the ”Best Live European Blues Recording” category, and in 2004 they won the ”Best Foreign
Blues Act” award. In 2008 they won a Danish Music Award for ”Blues Album of the Year”.
Danish music press has described him as a: "Authentic blues singer and a superb guitar player,
who over the has developed a highly personal style".

Zakiya Hooker is the daughter of the legendary John Lee Hooker, but she is
definitely going her own way. Her music ranges from solid, swinging blues classics
to a more jazzy style.
With her sensitive, silky-rich voice and dynamic performance she skillfully takes
charge of the stage, and she's loved by audiences everywhere, from Paris, London,
Amsterdam to the home ground, like San Fransisco Blues Festival and Monterey
Jazz & Blues Festival.
She started her professional career with her dad, in 1991 in Oakland, CA., and since
then she has performed on her own and appeared at great shows with Etta James,
John Hammond, Taj Mahal, Charles Brown and others.
Last year she releases her forth CD, ”Keeping it Real”, which, like it's predecessor,
the live CD “Colors Of The Blues”, was recorded in South America.

The festival is looking forward to introduce this eminent singer-songwriter, and a
younger generation of the Hooker family, in Denmark for the first time.

Two shows - at Mojo Thursday night and Roedovre Centrum Friday afternoon.

Two voices, two guitars and diverse harps play blues and jazz.
Intensely swinging or peaceful and quiet
– always with a blues feeling, some scat singing and lots of guitar solos.

Nathan James will demonstrate and teach his different guitar playing styles - Piedmont,
delta and ragtime within the country-blues and some Chicago styles.
He'll be focusing on rhythm, self accompaniment and backing for harp players.
Attend, listen and learn!
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On this performance by Nathan James, you will see for yourself all the tricks he
has talked about a couple of hours earlier at his guitar workshop.
Theory is good - practice is better!
He is incredibly skillful on his guitar – plugged as well as unplugged. He is assisted by
Peter Nande's experienced Swedish bass player Magnus Lanshammar, and the exciting
Finnish singer, guitarist and harp player Tomi Leino. Leino has previously backed names
like Steve Guyger, James Harman, R.J. Mischo and Zakiya Hooker.
The stage is set for a swinging good time for everybody!

Tony Vega is a fantastic guitarist and singer, who since 1997 has marked himself as one of the
hottest Texas blues acts. With great personality he blends traditional Texas blues with his own
songwriting, performed with relentless guitar play supplemented with one of the most unique
voices out of Texas in years.
He has achieved an impressing line of acknowledgments, but the biggest award was probably,
when Mr. ZZ himself, Billy Gibbons, stated that: “Tony Vega is a monster...”

Straight from “the melting pot of New Orleans” comes 'The Wolf'.
Walter “Wolfman” Washington, like no one else, masters the blend of equal parts
of street funk, soul, gospel and deep blues into his delicate 'N'Awlin Special style'.
special New Orleans

Wolfman's music is pulsating with joy and good spirits, framed by funky guitar
riffs and a skin-tight ensemble. He is a New Orleans guy to the bone and one
of the city's best and most active concert names.

He is born in in the city in 1943, and already as a kid he joined his mothers
gospel choir, and before his 20th year he was on tour with Lee Dorsay, who had
big hits in the 50's with “Ride Your Pony” and “Working in a Coalmine”.
Later on he played with two of the best New Orleans singers ever, Irma Thomas
and Johnny Adams, but has now been his own master for more than 25 years.

A show with Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters is like looking in
a dictionary of the music history of Americas black population, embracing almost
everything from blues, R'n'B, soul, funk, jazz and all that's in between.
He is super groovy on a live stage with his charming outrovert showmanship, and
a higgly versatile repertoire, which can also be heard on his latest CD, “Doin’ The
Funky Thing”. One of the players on the album is another New Orleans great, Dr. John,
who comments:
"Since I first heard The Wolf, I thought that he was one of the hippest guitar
players and singers! He understood how to comp behind other singers, whether
it was Johnny Adams, Lee Dorsey or Irma Thomas.
I think “Doin’ The Funky Thing” is crucialchronic FUNK at it's best!".

It's exactly 20 years ago that The Wolf last visited Copenhagen, then as backing
for Buddy Guy, and the festival has tried to get him to town in several years.
Now we finally succeeded - he's here, and it's going to be BIG!

The times are over, when modern jazz can't blend with more popular musical styles as e.g. blues
and soul music. So here a handful of prominent soul-jazz musicians gives their own contribution
to this years Copenhagen Blues Festival. The concert in Valby Kulturhus will be a kind of cabaret
where each musician is allowed to play for full in a special feature-song. Kjeld Lauritsen plays
Hammond with foot-bass and shows the many facets of the organ. Per Gade on guitar masters the
whole specter from raw blues over swinging jazz to rock ballads. Anders Holm completes the trio
with his straight-forward and attentive drumming. As an extra scoop the trio brings two strong
special guests - Ole Fessor Lindgren on trombone and Jakob Elvstrøm on sax.

English Sugar T & the Swells plays entertaining and stylish classic R’n’B and rock’n’roll,
making you think about 50’ies and 60’ies names like Etta James, Dinah Washington,
Little Richard, Johnny Otis and Ray Charles – spiced up with 21 century attitude.
With the born entertainer Ralph Lamb on trumpet and sexy Hazel Sim, a.k.a. Miss Sugar T,
at the front, the audience is guarantied a high voltage entertainment from more than
capable musicians, who’re filling the dance floor on everything from sweaty bars to
clubs and festivals all over the world.
The band members have played with many prominent names, like: John Lee Hooker,
Howlin' Wolf, Tom Jones, Jamiroquai, Chaka Khan and Jamie Cullum.
This night, at Pilegaarden, the bass is handled by special guest Assi Roar, a.o. known
or his time with legendary Burning Red Ivanhoe.

Lending/Bugge started thier duo last year - in the best American blues tradition
- 'the master and his apprentice'.
Their theme is ”The Fruits meet the Roots” - a metaphor for the historic development
of the blues music, which the master and the apprentice represent alone and together.
The duo was started after Kenn’s appearance with Hans Christian’s band ”Live Bleeding
Fingers”, where they clicked, and the musical partnership has lasted.

Let's all get drunk and get tattooed – No, not a request from the festival organization, but the title
of the band's first album from 1996. Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters combine authentic Texas
roadhouse blues with swing and rock 'n' roll influences to deliver one hell of a live performance,
often marked as "300 Pounds Of Blues" – and guess why ! The band has it's own unique sound,
persona and rattling six-guns blazing blues.
It is always a pity to see Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters leave the groaning stage floor after
a bag full of stonkin' good R&B tunes.
"Music is always happening today", Gonzalez declares. "We ain't no juke box.
We want to leave our own imprint on the music." Memo Gonzalez & The Bluescasters are swinging like a suspension bridge in a hurricane.

Walter Trout born in 1951 and and raised in a music-loving home in Ocean City,
New Jersey, Walter Trout felt the calling to music at a young age.
His first instrument was trumpet, playing in the school band, but in the mid-'60s, Trout
switched to electric guitar after hearing an album that changed his whole appreciation
of music. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band featuring Mike Bloomfield cemented Walter’s
musical ambitions towards the blues. In his late teens and early 20s, Trout played in
numerous New Jersey bands, but in 1973, he packed his belongings and drove to
Los Angeles. Here Trout developed into a first rate sideman, playing with Finis Tasby,
Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom and Percy Mayfield.
Trout often teamed up with Hammond B3 wizard Deacon Jones, and his 'apprenticeship'
continued with blues greats like John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton and Joe Tex.
From 1981 he played with venerable blues rock band Canned Heat for 3 years.
But when the call came to join the legendary John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Trout jumped
and found himself sharing the spotlight with fellow guitarist Coco Montoya, with whom
he lifted the band to a new level. Trout felt that playing with Mayall was as close to his
childhood dream as he could get.
Walter Trout are definitely in the top league of guitarists in the world - partly because
of his flair for catchy riffs and his varied music style, that speaks to your soul, warms
your heart and has your foot tapping.
The audience at Amager Bio knows thist, and it’s a great pleasure to have Mr. Trout
play at the jubilee festival.

Ole Frimer has been at the fore-front of the Danish blues scene for many years, playing
and singing his authentic blues with a. o. Peter Thorup, Blue Junction and his own Frimer Band.
Frimers finger-picking style covers from a soft tone to a crisp and often biting and powerful sound.
He is clearly inspired by the music from the southern part of USA, particularly Texas-blues,
Johnny Winter, Albert Collins and Freddie King style, spiced up with Tex-mex and Southern soul.

In 2001 he and Blue Junction, as the first Danes ever, won the american Real Blues Award
in the ”Best Live European Blues Recording” category, and in 2004 they won the ”Best Foreign
Blues Act” award. In 2008 they won a Danish Music Award for ”Blues Album of the Year”.
Danish music press has described him as a: "Authentic blues singer and a superb guitar player,
who over the has developed a highly personal style".

The Rattlers took possession of the power blues scene in the beginning of the 90ties,
and soon got real busy on the country’s club scenes.
The band interprets the songs in their own way, and is far from the typical cover band.
If you enjoy Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZ Top, Hendrix and Nine Below Zero, you'll get some
high voltage versions - and a sweaty power blues evening is guarantied for all.

A legend in Danish Rock music, a guitar equilibrist, and a fantastic songwriter.
Peter Brander has been and still is the indispensable sound creator to a number
of Danish rock and pop icons, both as a producer in the studio and as a live sound
engineer. Occasionally he finds time to fill his old role as the frontman, guitarist
and singer of his own band. Now, with his band together again, he has recorded
an uncompromising rocking CD, ”No Compromises”.
Craftsmanship, playfulness and rockin’ riffs goes hand in hand with well composed
songs, a great sound, and baggy seats in the jeans.
As an extra bonus, the CD even includes a blues-CD with the band's favourites from
the blues archive and old set-lists, plus a couple of new, homegrown blues-rock tunes,
which will raise the ceiling at Krudttoenden this Friday.

It has long been a well kept secret that the champion guitarist of root music, Lars Hybel, is back
with a new band, Indian Summer. Everyone - not least CV Jorgensen - will confirm, that Hybel is
one of the real experts, when it comes to serious string playing in the direction of the West Coast
and down to Nashville.
The style includes country-rock, boogie, blues and bluegrass, which he plays on both guitar and banjo.
This particular evening, he’ll be solo, so the scene is set for an intimate and poetic musical experience
at Holstein Bodega.

The Delta Connection was assembled in 2006, after H.P. for several years had played as a duo or
quartet with Troels Jensen, Hugo Rasmussen and Jarno Varsted. H.P. is one of the country’s best
and most loyal supporters of the acoustic roots and blues tradition, which he plays with a characteristic
finger-pickin’ technique. Since the mid-80’ies he’s played solo all over the country, and travelled in
many parts of Europe and USA, where he has played with outstanding people like Cedric Burnside,
John Mooney and Kenny Brown, who in 2007 visited Copenhagen and played several festival jobs,
mongst others with H.P. and with The Healers. Particularly R.L. Burnside and his Hill Country blues
has left a deep impression on H.P, which can be heard in both his solo albums and the authentic
music style of his Delta trio, visiting Café Blaagaards Apotek this evening.

Shortly after arriving in Denmark (from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Dale
joined the jazz-rock band Blue Sun as their new singer. The band became
one of the most popular Danish fusion bands throughout the seventies.
The Dale Smith Blues Band has now played Danish and foreign clubs and
venues for nearly 20 years, with Dale as the energetic, charming center of
the band's music and performance.

Even though the music is strongly rooted in traditional blues, the band often
detours to rock and other groovy stuff, delivered with a surplus of improvisation,
showman-ship and pure joy of playing.

La Fontaine, by tradition, creates a special jazz-blues program for the festival
– so there’s something for jazz- and blues fans alike.
Also this year you'll experience unique constellations, top quality music and surprises.